TCM0120180 - Eligibility - income (other than earnings): Income - students (Info)
Student income means
- in England, Northern Ireland and Wales, a dependant’s grant payable to full-time students with a dependant adult
- in Scotland, a dependant’s grant payable to full-time students with a dependant adult or child, although the following elements of that grant are disregarded
- the additional allowance paid to students who if they have a dependant child are eligible for a childcare grant
and
- the grant for books, travel and equipment for students with dependant children.
When calculating student income for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland disregard in full
- student loans
- all other grants, for example to meet the cost of tuition fees, childcare, school meals and so on
- payments from Hardship Funds
- access and opportunity bursaries
- disabled student allowances
- scholarship income exempt from income tax
- interest on reimbursement of student loan repayments exempt from income tax
- in Northern Ireland, also disregard low income bursaries for Further and Higher Education Students
- in Scotland, also disregard income related bursaries
- in Wales, also disregard income related grants.